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that's good for us. the cbs evening news is next. >> and derek is back with the only local newscast at 7:00. we're always on wusa9.com. have a good night.
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. >>> a high school sophomore pleads guilty to an attempted murder and using a firearm in connection with a shooting with one of his classmates. 15-year-old robert gladden, jr., entered a plea. part of the plea deal, the judge agreed to sentence him to no more than 40 years behind bars. >>> and a new trial began today for a man who has been sentenced to 100 years in prison. jason scott accused of murdering dewitt and her daughter. defendants serving time for a series of burglaries in '08 and '09. investigators say scott yewsed a data base to pick home invasion targets. >> no doubt you've noticed the price at the gas pump just keeps climbing. according to aaa, the price has climbed every day for the last 29 days. right now, you're paying 12 cents a gallon more. making the prices you are seeing the most expensive ever for this time of year. >>> have you found a deal on gas in your neighborhood? we would love to hear about it. head to our facebook page and tell us where you find the cheapest price per gallon. >>> and growing support for an online petition to keep wrestling as an olympic
. >>> a high school sophomore pleads guilty to an attempted murder and using a firearm in connection with a shooting with one of his classmates. 15-year-old robert gladden, jr., entered a plea. part of the plea deal, the judge agreed to sentence him to no more than 40 years behind bars. >>> and a new trial began today for a man who has been sentenced to 100 years in prison. jason scott accused of murdering dewitt and her daughter. defendants serving time for a series of...
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we caught up with workers from the national treasury employee's union and judging by what they told us, those federal workers are following the story very closely. >> it's like a car payment and a utility bill. it's like a week's worth of mortgage. a lot of employees do not have a very large reserve. it's going to be a 10% pay cut. i have to lose a day. i'm going to lose a day up until the end of october. financially. you know, that is an electric bill. >> personally, my plan is to take a home equity line out on my house to pay for my children's college tuition. i had an employee who is a lower grade employee ask me if i would take her furlough day and i told her i would because she can't afford her car payment and her rent. >> there is concern, but no apparent panic among the federal workers who talked with bruce johnson. in fact, a large group of employees for the smithsonian just learned they will not be furloughed during the cuts. >> the mandatory federal budget cuts come on march 1. >> are they talking about furloughs? no information whatsoever? >> no. just that it may happen, tha
we caught up with workers from the national treasury employee's union and judging by what they told us, those federal workers are following the story very closely. >> it's like a car payment and a utility bill. it's like a week's worth of mortgage. a lot of employees do not have a very large reserve. it's going to be a 10% pay cut. i have to lose a day. i'm going to lose a day up until the end of october. financially. you know, that is an electric bill. >> personally, my plan is to...
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stay with us, >>> a unique mission to mars is underway. millionaire, dennis, is leading a private effort to fly to the red planet in five years. at 36 million miles away, mars will be as close as it will ever get to earth in 2018. the last man to walk on the moon is a big fan of the mission. >> we are going to be on our way to mars by the turn of the century. i said that in 1973. over 27 years that we have been proven wrong, i won't live to see humans on mars, i thought i would. >> he is a former nasa engineer and the first space tourist. the flight to mars should take at least 501 days. he will reveal more of his plan called mission for america, here in washington ne week. >> okay. still ahead on wusa9, lance armstrong confession of doping may have opened the door to even >>> uncle sam wants a piece of lance armstrong. the justice department joined a lawsuit against the disgraced bicycling champ. the suit claims that by using performance enhancing drugs, armstrong defrauded his long- time sponsor, the u.s. postal service. the agency paid
stay with us, >>> a unique mission to mars is underway. millionaire, dennis, is leading a private effort to fly to the red planet in five years. at 36 million miles away, mars will be as close as it will ever get to earth in 2018. the last man to walk on the moon is a big fan of the mission. >> we are going to be on our way to mars by the turn of the century. i said that in 1973. over 27 years that we have been proven wrong, i won't live to see humans on mars, i thought i would....
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ed, thanks for joining us. we don't hope that we have to talk about this, but we are here and we can't ignore it. really the question to start with is what responsibility does the school have, sort of being on the front line to help stop violence after school hours. >> the schools play a big part in the community. a lot of activity at the school, during the school day, and after school hours as well. communities and schools. so the schools certainly need to know what is going on around the community in terms of crime activity. i think it's important to have good relationships with the school resource officer or local police commander. so they can share critical information with students and parents as to what may be occurring within that community. >> we often say if you see something, say something. if you're a student and concerned about how to protect yourself, if a situation could become violent, what would you tell these students to do? >> i think we have to be proactive. know your surroundings. try not to
ed, thanks for joining us. we don't hope that we have to talk about this, but we are here and we can't ignore it. really the question to start with is what responsibility does the school have, sort of being on the front line to help stop violence after school hours. >> the schools play a big part in the community. a lot of activity at the school, during the school day, and after school hours as well. communities and schools. so the schools certainly need to know what is going on around...
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a lochts us were expecting the b.s.a. to lift of ban but it makes sense to take this to their national council and i will discuss it a little further. >> brown: richard land, what's your reaction to today's move? >> well, i-- i'm very much pleased that they-- that they postponed this and are going to let the grass-roots council from all across the nation decide this. i have no doubt which way they will decide. they are responding to an enormous grass-roots uprising that has taken place since thi announced this proposed policy change. >> brown: and staying with you, the argument now for keeping the ban. what is the argument? >> the argument is simply that the boy scouts have the right to have their core principles and to decide their membership policies and as recently as six months ago after a two and a half year study by the boy scouts themselves they said that the current policy was supported by an overwhelming majority of the parents of the youth that they serve. and this is-- this attempt at compromise that has been p
a lochts us were expecting the b.s.a. to lift of ban but it makes sense to take this to their national council and i will discuss it a little further. >> brown: richard land, what's your reaction to today's move? >> well, i-- i'm very much pleased that they-- that they postponed this and are going to let the grass-roots council from all across the nation decide this. i have no doubt which way they will decide. they are responding to an enormous grass-roots uprising that has taken...
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but this is not efficient use. this is economically inefficient. and destructive use. it head in just the opposite direction i think we want to do. >> woodruff: we have nine days to go, we'll see what happens. deputy secretary of defense ashton carter, thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": sonia sotomayor's beloved country; the minds of rampage killers; mapping the brain and a stone age ceremonial site. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: former congressman jesse jackson junior pleaded guilty today to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. the illinois democrat appeared in a federal district court in washington. he had resigned from congress last november, after being treated for bi-polar disorder. jackson will be sentenced in late june. his wife sandra also pleaded guilty today, to committing tax fraud. the obama administration is launching a new strategy to fight cyber theft. the plan announced today includes a diplomatic effort to discourage intellectual property theft abro
but this is not efficient use. this is economically inefficient. and destructive use. it head in just the opposite direction i think we want to do. >> woodruff: we have nine days to go, we'll see what happens. deputy secretary of defense ashton carter, thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": sonia sotomayor's beloved country; the minds of rampage killers; mapping the brain and a stone age ceremonial site. but first, with the other news of...
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all of us are elected officials. all of us are concerned about our politics both in our own parties as well as the other parties. but at some point we have to do some governing. and certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis. >> suarez: to reinforce the point, the administration on sunday spelled out how each state will be affected from job losses for teachers to cuts in defense spending. after today's meeting, governors largely divided down party lines in voicing their frustration. democrats, including gernor daniel maloy of connecticut tended to blame congress. >> they need to get out of that box that sits under the dome and understand that this has real implications in people's lives and they should stop playing around with it and get the job done. by the way, they should compromise to get the job done. >> suarez: while governor bobby jindal of louisiana and his fellow republicans pointed to the president. >> enough is enough. now is the time to cut spending. it ca
all of us are elected officials. all of us are concerned about our politics both in our own parties as well as the other parties. but at some point we have to do some governing. and certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis. >> suarez: to reinforce the point, the administration on sunday spelled out how each state will be affected from job losses for teachers to cuts in defense spending. after today's meeting, governors largely divided...
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on the use of intimidation, should have used influence, i think would have been more appropriate. i should not have said dumb or stupid, because i understand, appreciate there are different views in these things. >> reporter: south carolina republican lindsey graham argued that hagel's larger record on middle east policy is equally troubling. >> do you believe that the sum total of all of your votes, refusing to sign a letter to the e.u. asking hezbollah to be designated a terrorist organization, being one of 22 to vote to designate the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist organization,eing one of two on two occasions to vote against sanctions that this body was trying to impose on iran, the statements you made about palestinians and about the jewish lobby, all that together. that the image you created is one of sending the worst possible signal to our enemies and friends at one of the most critical times in world history? >> no, i would not agree with that. because i have taken actions and made statements very clear as to what i believe hezbollah and hamas are as a terrorist o
on the use of intimidation, should have used influence, i think would have been more appropriate. i should not have said dumb or stupid, because i understand, appreciate there are different views in these things. >> reporter: south carolina republican lindsey graham argued that hagel's larger record on middle east policy is equally troubling. >> do you believe that the sum total of all of your votes, refusing to sign a letter to the e.u. asking hezbollah to be designated a terrorist...
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he joins us now. tony, is this an unusually good year to go to the movies and does that make it an unusually hard year to pick winners? >> i think it was a good year. i mean, i think there's so many different kinds of movies that come out in every year that it's sometimes hard to rank them. i think it was a very good year for mainstream movies that grown-ups might want to go see. there's been a knock against the hollywood studios for the last decade or so that they're mostly interested in teenagers, in action franchises for the international marketplace, in sequels and superheroes and so on. this year a lot of movies, "lincoln" life of pi" "les miserables," "zero dark thirty" found audiences and as well as a lot of critical acclaim. so i think it is a strong year for the kind of movies that we were accustomed to seeing around oscar time in decades past but haven't been as thick on the ground recently. >> suarez: "around oscar time." might this part b what some critics see a the gaming of a calendar? t
he joins us now. tony, is this an unusually good year to go to the movies and does that make it an unusually hard year to pick winners? >> i think it was a good year. i mean, i think there's so many different kinds of movies that come out in every year that it's sometimes hard to rank them. i think it was a very good year for mainstream movies that grown-ups might want to go see. there's been a knock against the hollywood studios for the last decade or so that they're mostly interested in...
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do you draw a line between the use of drones at all and the use of drones in order to get to american citizens? >> look, i think the concern is less abouting a t actual kind of weapons used in the fact that lethal force is authorized in the first place and i would disagree with professor waxman on a couple of very key points. one is that he's accepting the conclusion that there is a war without geographic limitations. we are admittedly in an armed conflict in a war in afghanistan but at the time of the killings, for example, that we are contesting in a lawsuit with center for constitutional rights of three american citizens in 2011, there was no armed conflict in yemen where the killings took place at the time that the killings happened. so what's truly troubling here is how broad the assertion of authority is and how hard the administration is fighting to prevent the courts from looking at the legality of the authority that it claims. >> ifill: we should mention that even though anwar al-awlaki's name is not mentioned in this memo, mr. waxman, there is an assumption that this is a ki
do you draw a line between the use of drones at all and the use of drones in order to get to american citizens? >> look, i think the concern is less abouting a t actual kind of weapons used in the fact that lethal force is authorized in the first place and i would disagree with professor waxman on a couple of very key points. one is that he's accepting the conclusion that there is a war without geographic limitations. we are admittedly in an armed conflict in a war in afghanistan but at...
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do stay with us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: a new study says fast food makes up about 11% of the american diet, less than before but not by much. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we sort through what all this means for america's obesity problem in children and adults. >> woodruff: then, we look at health care for the pooras florida's republican governor is the latest to embrace the obama administration's program to expand medicaid. >> suarez: margaret warner gets an update on the syrian civil war, as attacks on damascus escalate and the deadliest car bomb to date rocks the capital. >> woodruff: our week long focus on guns, "after newtown" continues with two reports: first, the state of play in florida, which has some of the least restrictive gun laws in the u.s. >> nothing really truly equalizes a smal petite woman with someone who's 6'3, 230 pounds who's angry except a firearm. >> those weapons often times
do stay with us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: a new study says fast food makes up about 11% of the american diet, less than before but not by much. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we sort through what all this means for america's obesity problem in children and adults. >> woodruff: then, we look at health care for the pooras florida's republican governor is the latest to...
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he joins us now. welcome >> thank you for having me brown: we've known this is a problem for a long time but how pervasive is it? >> it's extremely extensive. according to the department of de's own estimates more than 19,000 men and women are sexually assaulted each year in the u.s. military. if you multiply that times the decades this has been going on there's over 500,000 perhaps even close to a million men and women have been sexually asauled over the last three generations >> brown: the problem that you showed and we really saw it in that excerpt is not only does it happens but the ugliness afterwards, right? the women themselves are often persecuted >> exactly. only 86% of men and women who are sexually assaulted in the military don't report. it's exactly for those reasons. they experience reprisals that are in many ways a second betrayal that is worse than the actual rape itself. >> brown: sometimes they have to report it to the perpetrator >> right. brown: their commanding officer >> right bro
he joins us now. welcome >> thank you for having me brown: we've known this is a problem for a long time but how pervasive is it? >> it's extremely extensive. according to the department of de's own estimates more than 19,000 men and women are sexually assaulted each year in the u.s. military. if you multiply that times the decades this has been going on there's over 500,000 perhaps even close to a million men and women have been sexually asauled over the last three generations...
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she joins us now. melissa, thanks for joining us. tell us a bit more about chris kile's own story. he grew up there in texas, right? >> that's right. he he grew up in texas. he mentioned in an interview that he dreamed of being a cow boy or becoming a person in the military. he ended up joining the navy seal and becoming a very successful sniper. had was deeply christiane in his faith. he was well liked by his peers. >> brown: he served with great distinction. he came back and wrote this best selling memoir of his time in iraq. he had his own problems adjusting to life back at home. >> yes, he did. he mentioned that when he got back, it was a jarring transition to return to civilian life. he couldn't connect as much with people who hadn't experienced and seen what he had seen during his four deployments in iraq which led him to empathize with fellow veterans and want to help them. >> bro: tell us about that ork. since 20 i gather he's been quite active in trying to work with other vets. >> that's right. he actually started a nonprofit that provided at-home exercise equipment to hel
she joins us now. melissa, thanks for joining us. tell us a bit more about chris kile's own story. he grew up there in texas, right? >> that's right. he he grew up in texas. he mentioned in an interview that he dreamed of being a cow boy or becoming a person in the military. he ended up joining the navy seal and becoming a very successful sniper. had was deeply christiane in his faith. he was well liked by his peers. >> brown: he served with great distinction. he came back and wrote...
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decode for us what happened today. i mean, the republicans told harry reid they had the votes to block the nomination-- block consideration of the nomination, yet he forced it to a vote in the amp anyway. why? >> he did. well, there are different imperatives floating around all cornerings of this vote, as there often are in the senate. opposition to senator hagel has mounted before he was even named and almost all of that opposition except for token opposition came from within his own party. building up today-to-today it was a question of would republicans require 60 votes to mo forrd wththis nomination? not unprecedented for a cabinet nominee but harry reid was right it is unprecedented for a secretary of defense, for any national security nominee at the top level for that matter. as it got closer to the vote, then, the question became would democrats be able to peel five republicans to get to 60 and if not are republicans going to stick by their guns and make this a real filibuster? meaning we're going to withhold 60
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none of us do. if we can't get our hamburger within five minutes, if we can't get on the plane within 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens. they start calling their member of congress. >> suarez: more now on these latest warnings, the republican response and the timing of these possible cuts. lisa rein is following this for the "washington post" and she joins me now. lisa, in recent days senior members of the obama administration have laid out an exacting detail all the terrible consequences that the sequester goes through while republicans, in many cases, have said it might not be that bad. from your reporting, can you tell who's working closer to the truth? >> well, it is hard to tell you about this is really in part a political game because it really does look like these 85 billion dollars in spending cuts will begin to take effect next fridayment it does not look as if congress, either side in congress has a real interest in resolving this issue. and the obama administra
none of us do. if we can't get our hamburger within five minutes, if we can't get on the plane within 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens. they start calling their member of congress. >> suarez: more now on these latest warnings, the republican response and the timing of these possible cuts. lisa rein is following this for the "washington post" and she joins me now. lisa, in recent days senior members of the obama administration have laid out an...
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the government is there to serve us, to protect us. >> reporter: from california to maine, officials in at least 11 states are considering various restrictions. according to government data, drones are being used by more than 40 public agencies and institutions, including at least 17 federal, state and local law enforcement departments. >> it's smaller, it's more affordable, and it can be used to save lives. >> reporter: since 2005, they have patrolled the mexican border. in 2011, a drone was involved in the arrest of a north dakota man, believed the first time one was used that way. the idea that anyone walking down a street could be tracked by a drone with a camera, facial recognition technology, maybe even eaves dropping equipment alarms privacy advocates. >> the issue is whether they're using a surveillance drone to monitor a city street for an unlimited amount of time. >> reporter: drones are also being used in other ways. anywhere an overhead view could be useful. farmers checking on crops and scientists studying wildlife. even hollywood uses them for overhead shots, as in last
the government is there to serve us, to protect us. >> reporter: from california to maine, officials in at least 11 states are considering various restrictions. according to government data, drones are being used by more than 40 public agencies and institutions, including at least 17 federal, state and local law enforcement departments. >> it's smaller, it's more affordable, and it can be used to save lives. >> reporter: since 2005, they have patrolled the mexican border. in...
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is to be used. maryland argued that it's used primarily for identification purposes, but it also serves an interest in giving judges more information to make bail decisions and, yes, it does help solve unsolved crimes. so the justices were pushing back a bit at maryland justice society mayor did ask what makes an arrestee a special category that should be exempt from the warrant that police don't have to have a warrant? and the united states also had an attorney arguing today. he said an arrest-d is the gateway to the criminal justice system. an arrestee is not a free citizen. the arrestee has a reduced expectation of privacy. they're also repeat offenders. the only information at stake, he argued, is the identity of the arrestee. that, of course, didn't satisfy mr. king's attorney who said that, first of all, d.n.a. sampling is not fingerprinting. fingerprinting, there's no intrusion into the body. and also with fingerprinting we really don't have a legitimate expectation of privacy in our fingerpr
is to be used. maryland argued that it's used primarily for identification purposes, but it also serves an interest in giving judges more information to make bail decisions and, yes, it does help solve unsolved crimes. so the justices were pushing back a bit at maryland justice society mayor did ask what makes an arrestee a special category that should be exempt from the warrant that police don't have to have a warrant? and the united states also had an attorney arguing today. he said an...
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use you can use it as feed. there are many, many cases you can make of that. >> you just can't let it grow into a soybean. >> no, you can't make the copy and sell the copy for the purpose that was coined in the patent. >> well, that's what's at stake here. is a soybean seed like a photograph record? if anybody can still play a phonograph record. >> i don't know. legally it seems to me if i were writing the laws i would put some limitations on the types of conditions that can be placed on an initial sale and i would say after the initial sale you're subject to any contracts licensing contracts and those can be reviewed by courts under such laws as the antitrust laws and we can get some sort of a balance of the public interest. whereas if you say that it's only subject to patent infringe you're putting all the cards with the patentee and very few with the consumers or the other parties in the economy who are going to be affected. the result of an extreme interpretation, who knows what we might get out of this in t
use you can use it as feed. there are many, many cases you can make of that. >> you just can't let it grow into a soybean. >> no, you can't make the copy and sell the copy for the purpose that was coined in the patent. >> well, that's what's at stake here. is a soybean seed like a photograph record? if anybody can still play a phonograph record. >> i don't know. legally it seems to me if i were writing the laws i would put some limitations on the types of conditions that...
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and there's stillo real solid ra approachment between us and then. so it is very hard to see that her soothing, her repairing of applianc appliance-- alliances necessarily resulted in concrete policy achievements. >> suarez: susan, wasn't it a pretty complicated mess, not only where places as trudy knows, like pakistan, but even with some of america's closest allies. >> well, that's exactly right. i mean these are times where, you know, you play the hand you are dealt as secretary of state not only because the white house decides the big picture policy. but the world over the last four years has been a complicated place who would have expected that actually europe our closee-- closest allies would have been in a period of enormous internal turmoil greater than anything they have seen since the end of world war 2. so clinton was left to manage those relationships. i think i would say that she was often a soother, but often as not she was also someone who would speak out in a tough manner. look at her championship with the russians. even as president o
and there's stillo real solid ra approachment between us and then. so it is very hard to see that her soothing, her repairing of applianc appliance-- alliances necessarily resulted in concrete policy achievements. >> suarez: susan, wasn't it a pretty complicated mess, not only where places as trudy knows, like pakistan, but even with some of america's closest allies. >> well, that's exactly right. i mean these are times where, you know, you play the hand you are dealt as secretary...
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tell us what you saw. >> i talked to the witnesses, the neighbors here. and people told me that there was a huge explosion. the sound was really too loud and they said that the walls trembled in their homes and they felt that their organs had shaken. so she immediately understood that something went terribly wrong at the u.s. embassy, their neighbor. and as i looked around i seen that, you know, also our journalists, the turkish correspondents here were kind of calm and quiet because the only injured is now at the hospital, is one of ours. a turkish correspondent, diplomatic correspondent. >> brown: now the turkish interior minister said the bomber was a member of a far left group. what is known about this group? and why they might attack a u.s. facility? >> well, this group named revolutionary people's liberation party in turkish we call it-- was founded in 1978. and it's a secular terrorist organization, different from the islamist leaning terrorist organization. it embraces a marxist leninist ideology. it is anti-imperialist, anti-u.s. and anti-nato fo
tell us what you saw. >> i talked to the witnesses, the neighbors here. and people told me that there was a huge explosion. the sound was really too loud and they said that the walls trembled in their homes and they felt that their organs had shaken. so she immediately understood that something went terribly wrong at the u.s. embassy, their neighbor. and as i looked around i seen that, you know, also our journalists, the turkish correspondents here were kind of calm and quiet because the...
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frank, thanks for joining us. bring us up to speed. what happened today? >> well, it was in the early afternoon that a police got reports of a truck being commandeered in the big bear area. now, this suspect's truck had been found there a few days earlier burned out. this truck that he was driving apparently commandeered, and the police took after him and chased him into the woods into a cabin. they have him surrounded now. >> sreenivasan: what has he been doing for the past couple of days? how did he get access to this truck? >> well, he commandeered the truck from a couple of women. for the last few days police have been in a massive manhunt in southern california. hundreds and hundreds of officers looking for him. and there was a lot of question because his burned-out truck was found in the big bear area a few days ago. there was a huge snowstorm and people were wondering how could he survive out in this snowstorm? there have been reports that he was held up in one of the cabins not far from the command post where police were. then he shows up today on
frank, thanks for joining us. bring us up to speed. what happened today? >> well, it was in the early afternoon that a police got reports of a truck being commandeered in the big bear area. now, this suspect's truck had been found there a few days earlier burned out. this truck that he was driving apparently commandeered, and the police took after him and chased him into the woods into a cabin. they have him surrounded now. >> sreenivasan: what has he been doing for the past couple...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the papacy of benedict the sixteenth officially ended today as he became the first pontiff in modern times to resign. on his last day, he spoke with the cardinals who will now turn to choosing his successor, amid continuing scandals and tensions within the vatican and wider church. we begin with our coverage with this report from james mates of "independent television news." >> reporter: looking a little frail, weary almost under the burdens of a tumultuous eight years in the holy see, pope benedict met his cardinals for a final time. in the magnificent surroundings of the vatican's clementine room, he thanked them and recognized that one o
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it's been a secret to us. and i just think the failure to debate that has been a failure of us in the press but a failure of political leadership as well. >> woodruff: and this accusation that the president is guilty of hypocrisy because of what he said during the campaign, what said early in his presidency, is that a fair -- >> it's a fair-- i think the president has to make the case. i mean you know, because he certainly, his position now is entirely different. david's right. he has a different responsibility now than he had then. and it is kind of neat. and you don't have the civilian casualties that you do when are you bombing from 20,000 feet. but at the same time, the new american foundation's cement 142 civilians have been killed in yemen. yes, we kilter rest. how many do we create with these. >> right, well, you know, when you get that daily intelligence brief the way the president does it changes your perspective. you don't have the luxury of doing the moral breaning you-- preening dow from the outsid
it's been a secret to us. and i just think the failure to debate that has been a failure of us in the press but a failure of political leadership as well. >> woodruff: and this accusation that the president is guilty of hypocrisy because of what he said during the campaign, what said early in his presidency, is that a fair -- >> it's a fair-- i think the president has to make the case. i mean you know, because he certainly, his position now is entirely different. david's right. he...
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thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama met with the nation's governors today, and painted a gloomy picture of federal spending cuts that are set to kick in friday. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we get an update on the potential impact the sequester will have if the white house and congress can't work out a compromise. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner looks into the troubles looming for the catholic church ahead of electing a new pope. >> suarez: a cuba without a castro in charge? we talk with senator patrick leahy, who just returned from the island after an unsuccessful attempt to secure the release of an imprisoned american. >> woodruff: fred de sam lazaro reports on india's push to account for hundreds of millions of its citizens by issuing government identity cards. >> we still have a large number of residents much india who don't have a birth certificate or any other form of offic
thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama met with the nation's governors today, and painted a gloomy picture of federal spending cuts that are set to kick in friday. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we get an update on the potential impact the sequester will have if the white house and congress can't work out a compromise. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner...
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thanks for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by wpbt >> this is n.b.r. >> tom: good evening. i'm tom hudson. susie is off tonight. the easy talk, but difficult plans to meet the challenge of creating more middle class jobs. finance ministers and central bankers from the world's biggest economies meet to debate spending cuts versus growth. we look at international investing
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that will allow us to capture all of the ingenious methods that jurisdictions might use to discriminate against minority voters. >> woodruff: why isn't it better to move ahead of time rather than waiting until after a violation has happened. >> well, that issue came up in the court today and one of the justices said well, apparently the government hasn't heard of the fact that you can go immediately to court and get a temporary restraining order to stop that kind of behavior. the point of this is that under section 5 when you do something that is just unique in american jurisprudence, the burden of proof is not on the government is to show discrimination has occurred. the burden of proof is on submitting jurisdictions to somehow prove a negative that they didn't discriminate. and you can only put that kind of burden on if you have the kind of circumstances that justify it. under the supreme court's own holding in 1966, that doesn't apply today. >> woodruff: how do you answer that? >> this is precisely what congress intended. what congress wanted was for the burden to be removed from the
that will allow us to capture all of the ingenious methods that jurisdictions might use to discriminate against minority voters. >> woodruff: why isn't it better to move ahead of time rather than waiting until after a violation has happened. >> well, that issue came up in the court today and one of the justices said well, apparently the government hasn't heard of the fact that you can go immediately to court and get a temporary restraining order to stop that kind of behavior. the...
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you have to use the statutes that you have available and you have to use the evidence you've got but there's a strong suit the federal government is engaging. >> brown: this is going to be a tough one to prove? >> no, i don't think it's tough to prove. if you read the complaints there is an enormous amount of internal information that shows that they knew they weren't being independently objective. they knew they were ratings junk but saying it was high quality. >> brown: lisa madigan, illinois's attorney general, thank you so much. now a response by standard & poor's. played in the abrams, lisa madigan suggests this is a pretty clear-cut case of fraud. what's the essence of the defense? >> well, the defense is first of all there was no fraud. there was no intent on the part of standard & poor's to s anying, to rate anything other than what they thought the rating was it's perfectly true that they were internal debates, that there are some e-mails going back and forth by angry people, sometimes accusatory of each other but the underlying reality here is that the ratings at issue in t
you have to use the statutes that you have available and you have to use the evidence you've got but there's a strong suit the federal government is engaging. >> brown: this is going to be a tough one to prove? >> no, i don't think it's tough to prove. if you read the complaints there is an enormous amount of internal information that shows that they knew they weren't being independently objective. they knew they were ratings junk but saying it was high quality. >> brown: lisa...
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thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: in the nine weeks since the schoolhouse shootings in newtown, connecticut, police around the country report hundreds more have been victims of gun violence. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. tonight begins a weeklong focus on guns here on pbs, "after newtown." on the newshour this evening, we look at political and other developments since the december tragedy and zero in on the gun debate in colorado. >> in the divisive atmosphere of the gun debate, both sides, at the federal and state level, say they know the coming months won't be easy. but they will be critical. >> ifill: then, we take up the arguments for and against the proposed construction of the keystone pipeline, as environmental activists mounted a protest this weekend. >> woodurff: ray suarez updates the hugo chavez story, after the president's surprise return to venezuela following more than two months of cancer treatment in cuba.
thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: in the nine weeks since the schoolhouse shootings in newtown, connecticut, police around the country report hundreds more have been victims of gun violence. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. tonight begins a weeklong focus on guns here on pbs, "after newtown." on the newshour this evening, we look at political and other developments since the december tragedy...
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none of us will get 100% of what we want. but the alternative will cost us jobs. hurt our economy. visit hardship on millions of hard-working americans. let's set party interests aside and work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and wise investments in our future. and let's do it without the bringsmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors. the greatest nation on earth, the greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufacturing cries... from one manufactured crisis to the next. we can't do it. ( applause ) let's agree, let's agree right here right now to keep the people's government open and pay our bills on time and always uphold the full faith and credit of the united states of america. ( applause ) the american people have worked too hard for too long rebuilding from one crisis to see their elected officials cause another. (smattering of applause) now most of us agree that a plan to reduce the deficit must be part of our agenda. let's be clear. deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan. (sl
none of us will get 100% of what we want. but the alternative will cost us jobs. hurt our economy. visit hardship on millions of hard-working americans. let's set party interests aside and work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and wise investments in our future. and let's do it without the bringsmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors. the greatest nation on earth, the greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from...
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thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: the supreme court heard a challenge today to the landmark voting rights act from alabama officials who said a key provision has outlived its usefulness. good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill on the "newshour" tonight. marcia coyle fills us in on the court arguments followed by a debate on whether the whole the law is still needed. >> brown: then, ray suarez reports on the political push to tighten gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons. >> ifill: does it matter where we work? yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer sparks an uproar by banning employees from working from home. >> brown: from our "coping with climate change" series, hari sreenivasan takes to the slopes and asks: could rising temperatures endanger future ski seasons? >> you don't kn if u're going to have good snow. you don't know if it's going to come early or late, or if the spring is going to become warm, and the season is going to en
thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: the supreme court heard a challenge today to the landmark voting rights act from alabama officials who said a key provision has outlived its usefulness. good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill on the "newshour" tonight. marcia coyle fills us in on the court arguments followed by a debate on whether the whole the law is still needed. >> brown: then, ray suarez...